Hello Roy. 1) The DOS used with Win95 and Win98 allows file names of great length, up to 256 characters. Actually, you CAN'T have 256 characters, because storing file names includes the Drive/Directory, so if the total file location, including drive/directory/filename is over 256 characters, you'll run into problems with ScanDisk and Defrag. 2) Yes, one may use WINFILE (left over from the old Win3.1). I had forgotten about that one. But, it's still more time consuming to copy a file in Winfile than from a DOS prompt. 3) Thanks for reminding me. SgtGeorge At 04:36 PM 04/14/2000, Roy Patton wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* At 00:57 04/14/2000 -0400, you wrote: (Ugh! Why can't MS allow us to do this in Windows without >having to resort to DOS!?) Got to a DOS prompt; navigate to C:\Eudora; type: >COPY EUDORA.INI EUDORA-INI.BAK > Sarge, I have a question and a suggestion. The question is first. What version of DOS are you using that lets you rename a file as EUDORA-INI.BAK? I used everything from DOS 2.1 to DOS 6.0 and all of those limited a file name to eight characters with a three character extension. EUDORA-INI.BAK has ten characters in the file name. The suggestion refers to the "(Ugh! Why can't MS allow us to do this in Windows without having to resort to DOS!?)" part of your message. I'm no admirer of MS but they DO allow you to COPY/RENAME/MOVE/DELETE/ Etc. without resorting to DOS. I'll admit that Windows Explorer is typical Microsoft and doesn't permit many useful functions. But do a File Find in your Windows directory looking for WINFILE.EXE. Make an icon for this file and put it on your Desktop. You can then double click this icon and use WINFILE.EXE rather than Windows Explorer. Anyone who used Windows 3.1 will recognize WINFILE.EXE as the File Manager of that version. You can use WINFILE.EXE to perform many file operations by pointing and clicking. There are some operations where typing in the file name or the command is quicker. When that is the case, WINFILE.EXE provides you with a "fill in the blanks" template to do what needs to be done. It combines the command flexibility of DOS with the ease of Windows. Windows 3.1 had a lot of things wrong with it. File Manager wasn't one of them. Roy Patton ============================== Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**************